The Artificial Famine/Genocide(Holodomor) in Ukraine1932-33

Introduction

A Man-Made Famine/Genocide raged through Ukraine, the ethnic-Ukrainian region
of northern Caucasus (i.e. Kuban), and the lower Volga River region in 1932-33. This
resulted in the death of between 7 to 10 million people, mainly Ukrainians.
This was instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lazar
Kaganovich. The main goal of this artificial famine/genocide was to break
the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant and to force them into
collectivization and was used as an effective tool to break the renaissance
of Ukrainian culture that was occuring under approval of the communist
government in Ukraine. Moscow perceived this as a threat to
a Russo-Centric Soviet rule and therefore acted to crush this cultural
renaissance in a most brutal sadistic manner. The resulting goal of this
artificial famine/genocide was to "ethnically cleanse" Ukrainians from vast
territories.

In 1932, the Soviets increased the grain procurement quota for
Ukraine by 44%. They were aware that this extraordinarly high quota
would result in a grain shortage, therefore resulting in the inability
of the Ukrainian peasant to feed themselves. Soviet law was quite
clear in that no grain could be given to feed the peasants until the
quota was met. Communist party officials with the aid of military
troops, OGPU, NKVD secret police units were used to move against peasants
who may be hiding grain from the Soviet government. Even worse, an
internal passport system was implemented to restrict movements of
Ukrainian peasants so that they could not travel in search of food.
Ukrainian grain was collected and stored in grain elevators that
were guarded by military units & NKVD secret police units while
Ukrainians were starving in the immediate area. The actions of this
Moscow instigated action was a deliberate act of genocide against the
Ukrainian peasant.

The news of this act of brutality managed to get out to the West
inluding Germany (thru observations from their consulate in Kharkiv),
Britain (by various journalists including Gareth Jones & Malcom
Muggeridge), Canada (the Ukrainian community) & the United States.
The Russo-centric Soviet Union managed to control the message in the
United States by co-opting the New York Times reporter Walter Duranty
who falsified his reporting on the conditions in Ukraine and won a
Pulitzer Prize for doing that). To this day, The New York Times
refuses to acknowledge the act of deliberate fraud perpetrated by
Walter Duranty, and refuse to this very day to return the Pulitzer
Prize on moral and ethical grounds. By refusing to do so suggests
they may tacitely approve what Duranty did.

In recent years President Viktor Yushchenko had ordered the
release of old NKVD/KGB records on the Famine. With this information
it has become very apparent that this Famine was a deliberate
act of Genocide, a method to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians from
the territories of Ukraine and parts of Russia (where Ukrainians
were in the majority such as Kuban). At first only several thousand
documents were released. Recently another batch of 25,000 documents
is being declassified. As more documents are released this event in
Ukrainian history has taken on a very ominous tone.

On November 28th 2006, the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of
Ukraine) had passed a Law defining the Holodomor as a deliberate
Act of Genocide. Since then many nations have recognized that the
Holodomor was an act of Genocide against the Ukrainian people and
they include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Estonia, Ecuador,
Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru,
Poland and the United States. Other countries have made a Holodomor
declaration and they include Argentina, Czech Republic, Chile,
Slovak Republic, Spain, Balearic Islands (Spain) and the Vatican.
Russia is in complete denial and is exercizing political influence
to deny that this event occured and that it was a deliberate act.
In fact in Russia it was made illegal to commemorate this event.

The success of using food as a weapon to control/punish/eliminate
a people was first used by the Soviet Communists. Since then this
has become a standard tool in the arsenal of communist regimes
to control/punish/eliminate people, and has been used by such
regimes such as China, North Korea, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Zimbabwe
amongst others.

These series of pages are intended to educate the general populace
about this little known event in Ukrainian history. InfoUkes hopes to
add to this series of pages over time.